Have any actually been released in the UK yet?

Or at all to be perfectly honest?

Here's an ECS prototype laptop:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32297

Unreleased.

This is a gimmick.

Here's another POS with SideShow capability...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/23/dell ... available/

1) It's a desktop
2) It's a Dell
3) It's running Microsoft Windows
4) It's SideShow capable, i.e: they ran out of good marketing ploys

What do you think of this, SideShow as future of server racks, tiny little screens saying if its broken or not?

Our servers at work do that already Blue light means OK, red light means uh-oh.

Yea but you could extend it to get a little glimpse of like load and stuff lol

I see what you're getting at, but I just can't see this sort of thing taking off.

I can see it useful in server farms for quick readouts, but on personal computers it's pointless.